(courtesy of aarushi and facebook) here, read it:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/30-Day-Song-Challenge/120874111270003?sk=app_4949752878
1. This changes all the time, but Local Natives have it now with Wide Eyes. This song also means that the best album i’ve heard is about to follow.
2. Because I’m considering Rebecca Black’s “Friday” as more of a “noise occurence” than a song, it’s gonna have to be S Club 7’s Never Had A Dream Come True. Though on any given saturday, anything on Saturday at the 70’s is also fair game.
3. Camera Talk, Local Natives again. Reminds me of the island because it was stuck in my head nearly the whole time I was there. But it had some competition with other songs, see 6.
4. Thom Yorke-All For The Best. He wrote it as part of a compilation for a friend’s wife who had died, and also, it’s Thom Yorke so the song’s really haunting and emotional-sounding
5. A-Ha’s Take On Me will forever be associated with Chris Han in my mind. Or see 28.
6. Night Shift by Busy Signal (not Phil Collins)… of course, also reminds me of South Caicos.
7. The Dinosaur Song by Sleeping In The Aviary. “They’re dinosaurs/ they wear short sleeves/ they scuba dive/ and also climb trees…” When we went to the High Noon and Sleeping In The Aviary pelted the fans with marshmallows.
8. I’m not exactly a lyrics person, so I probably don’t know all the words to any one song (of course, even my own). I come close with Lullaby by The Cat Empire, and that’s got a lot of words jam-packed in there.
9. Hello Hello! more Cat Empire. I can do the rumba to this because I actually can do the rumba.
10. I don’t listen to music before bed, but any Coldplay song should do the trick. I think Swallowed In The Sea, specifically, would anesthetize me by sheer lack of auditory stimulation.
11. Cards And Quarters. More Local Natives.
12. Stronger by Kanye West. I suppose I could have picked many, many songs by other artists that I don’t like, but how could I not pick Kanye? What’s not to not hate about him?
13. Now a lot of people will say music from any of the animated Disney movies. I say nay nay-it’s not a guilty pleasure if you openly admit it like everybody else in the developed world does. I’ll go with She Drives Me Crazy by Fine Young Cannibals. That’s some catchy 80’s brit-rock right there.
14. Taio Cruz-Dynamite. It is quite catchy.
15. A song I started writing today about my college experience. I guess you can’t get closer to the definition than that…
16. I believe I liked that song Who Let The Dogs Out by the Baha Men when I was in seventh grade. Of course, few didn’t like that song back then, and I’m quite glad I haven’t heard it since
17. I don’t listen to that shit
18. Let’s go with Ragged Wood by Fleet Foxes. The only chance of that ever being played is WSUM or another college radio station, I guess.
19. I’m going to run out of Local Natives Songs. Airplanes this time.
20. The Mixed Tape by Jack’s Mannequin- it’s sufficiently angsty.
21. Crucial bu K-O’s, though I wouldn’t say the lyrics are exactly happy: “That’s why we’re in chains and there’s no one to blame at night.” Hmm. Actually, I think he’s referencing slavery there. But “I don’t wanna change the world, I only want to stop pretending” is kind of along the line of inner peace. I don’t know.
22. Cliquot by Beirut. Lyrics talk about the protagonist’s lover dying in a plague as he realizes they’ll never be able to grow old together (but there’s some ambiguity.)
23. Ha… me getting married. For no reason at all, Simple X by Andrew Bird.
24. Saeglopur by Sigur Ros. I guess if people weren’t already crying, this alone would burst open the floodgates.
25. Future Is Future by Plasmatic Brain Spasm, I guess…. It starts with this dialogue: “How do ya feel?” “I’m sweatin’ like a sonofabitch… variety of mystical states, dream states…”
26. The Island by the Decemberists: the organ part during “The Landlord’s Daughter.” As far as keyboard parts go, that ranks up there.
27. The guitar part of Electioneering by Radiohead. Along with knowing how to operate the pedals and effects Johnny Greenwood uses. Or Cannibal Resource by the Dirty Projectors. All parts. At once.
28. Apply Some Pressure by Maximo Park, probably just because it reminds me of Megan.
29. Tingalayo by Raffi. That was the donkey song! Anything by Raffi. But I remember my first musical experience, when Kathie Zaremba played that song and invited the 4 or 5-year-old me to play the drum onstage at my preschool.
30. Probably Girl In The Ground by Sleeping In The Aviary.
